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Capabilities or the social model: which better tells a city what it owes disabled residents?
In a moot this term we had to argue about what a municipal corporation owes disabled residents under India's disability-rights legislation. I found myself reaching for two frameworks that don't fit together as neatly as our professors suggest. The social model tells…
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Bridges too low for buses: what did Winner mean by “artifacts have politics”?
In a short article about philosophy of technology I read about a bridge built too low for buses to pass under, so that the people who travel by bus could not easily reach what lay beyond it. The article said a philosopher…
Started by Serkan Aydoğdu3 replies -
The building has steps, my legs don’t work: which sentence names my disability?
I spend a lot of my working time measuring door widths and arguing with architects about gradients. When I can't get into a building, two descriptions are true. My legs don't work. The building has no ramp. For most of history the…
Started by Dima Nasser6 replies -
The step or the leg? What the social model of disability really claims
The social model is often caricatured as saying bodies do not matter. Read properly, it is a claim about where responsibility lies, and its sharpest critics are disabled scholars themselves.
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